By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The topic for discussion at the meeting last week was, “Which time of your life would you like to go back to?” During the pandemic the group of people who meet every two weeks to engage in German conversation held Zoom meetings instead of physical ones, and this […]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Lifestyles
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — In August 1912, in Neue Rundschau, Stephan Zweig analyzed the work of notable new writers who had appeared in German literature: “Apart from Thomas Mann, certainly the one with the greatest hope of creating a truly German novel, two writers, Heinrich Mann and Jacob Wasserman have already shown with
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Alex Gordon, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — When Eric Goldstein speaks, Benjamin Netanyahu must listen. Even more so than when others speak, such as U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Israeli business executive Eynat Guez, 100,000-plus protesters in Tel Aviv and Israeli expats in New York and Los Angeles. What Goldstein tells Israel’s prime minister can be
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
Gary Wolfson and Andrew Georgitsis have partnered at the informal “Bunny Chow” restaurant in the Mira Mesa area of San Diego, featuring not only bunny chow but other South African dishes reflecting that country’s ethnic diversity. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food
Published by AFP New York (AFP) – When Karl and Rosi Adler fled the Nazis in 1938 they sold a Pablo Picasso painting to fund their escape. Now, their descendants are suing to get it back. Heirs of the Adlers, who were German Jews, have filed a lawsuit against New York’s Guggenheim Museum, where the
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Holocaust
Published by Kyiv Independent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a CNN interview he would consider providing military aid, including Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, to Ukraine. “Well, I’m certainly looking into it,” Netanyahu said when asked about the possibility of Israel sending the Iron Dome to Ukraine. Netanyahu also said that
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Israel
Published by DPA The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra gave a rapturous welcome on Wednesday to the appointment of Israeli musician Lahav Shani as its new chief conductor in the 2026-27 season. After a year’s deliberation, the council of the Bavarian capital backed the 34-year-old in the role, initially for five years. Shani, who despite his young
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
(JNS) Between 2016 and 2022, extremist groups raised more than $6.2 million on 10 crowdfunding sites, including GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, per a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. The ADL tracked campaigns with “hateful rhetoric including antisemitism, white supremacy, QAnon conspiracies and anti-LGBTQ+ extremism, as well as rhetoric from antisemitic sects of
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USA
Published by Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Mahmoud Abbas spent much of his life before becoming Palestinian president in the shadow of Yasser Arafat, long the figurehead of the Palestinian cause, but he has never secured the same status in the role and has not brought his people closer to statehood. Based in the West Bank
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Israel
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s parasha, Beshalach, includes an impactful pasuk, “And He said, ‘If you hearken to the voice of the Lord, your God, and you do what is proper in His eyes, and you listen closely to His commandments and observe all His statutes, all the sicknesses that
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
“Turn Every Page, The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” Released December 2022, Sony Pictures By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The film title, “Turn Every Page,” is the vital maxim of the investigative journalist and historian. At the beginning of COVID-19, in early 2020, I took the opportunity for some self-directed continuing
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
The 103-minute documentary Deadly Deception at Sobibor, shows what happened to the camp after the famous escape. The work, painstakingly put together by filmmaker Gary Hochtman, will be shown at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival at 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb 16, at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Mark D. Zimmerman Attempts at censorship continue to be contentious, as those with opposing views try to shut down debate or sharing of controversial or offensive comments and materials, or even ideas which simply are in disagreement with others’ beliefs. For example, a Hamline University professor was recently fired for showing images of Muhammad
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by Reuters By Simon Lewis TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel and Palestinians to calm tensions as he visited on Monday during the worst violence in years, reaffirming a long-stalled peace vision as the “only path” forward. While focusing censure on a Palestinian gun spree outside a synagogue that
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Israel